Swings Squelched as Stocks to Bonds Calmest Since 2007
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Tension between Ukraine and Russia is escalating. The U.S. bull market has gone for on a year longer than average. Federal Reserve policy makers are scaling back its bond buying. Investors don’t care.
A risk measure that that uses options to forecast fluctuations in equities, currencies, commodities and bonds fell to its lowest level in almost seven years last week. Calm is blanketing investors after the MSCI All-Country World Index more than doubled from March 2009, 10-year Treasury yields climbed from an all-time low of 1.39 percent reached in 2012, and the euro traded in the narrowest range ever last week.